Notes
Slide Show
Outline
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A Newcomer’s Intro
to QLG
  • Linda Blum
  • Quincy Library Group
  • April 19, 2007
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QLG married 2 good ideas from the Forest Service
  • 1992 CASPO Report’s fuels & silvicultural recommendations
  • Lassen NF’s strategic fuels treatment patterns & ecologically based rates of treatment
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California Spotted Owl (CASPO) Technical Assessment Team recommended
  • “protect known spotted owl nest stands”
  • “protect very large, old trees throughout Sierran conifer forests”
  • “begin to cope with the excessive fuels problem”


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Quincy Library Group Community Stability Proposal
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Process Failures of HFQLG
  • Economic goals of Pilot Program not met
  • Changing directions of SNFPAs of 2001 & 2004, HFRA, etc.
  • SNFPA’s overpromising on MIS, risks
  • Owl ecology & status no clearer today to scientists
  • JUST NOT ENOUGH!
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Where Is Quincy Library Group Heading?
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Back to the Woods
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Back to Washington, D.C.
  • Report back to Congress on HFQLG Pilot
  • Encourage public policy discussions to set sustainable future for all of us
  • Comprehensive & integrated watershed restoration & management
  • Funding mechanism based on beneficiaries of ecosystem services
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Last Chance Creek Pre-Project Conditions
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Last Chance Creek, Alkali Flat, 2005
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Last Chance Creek, Alkali Flat, May 2005
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Last Chance Creek Project - Baseflow and Temperature
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Meadow/Floodplain Restoration

Upper
Feather River
 Watershed
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Upper Feather River Alluvial Valleys
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Thank you for watching my slide show!
  • Linda Blum
  • Quincy Library Group
  • www.qlg.org
  • www.fs.fed.us/r5/hfqlg/